Sentences with phrase «lame effort»
The phrase "lame effort" means that someone's attempt or action was weak, unimpressive, or inadequate. Full definition
An especially lame effort about Liam «no money left» Byrne was followed by an excellent gag about cooperation with Vince Cable.
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It's a pretty lame effort at bringing classic (which is to say clichéd) tropes to an adolescent - friendly introduction to Horror 101, but it'll make a big profit even if only does have its predicted $ 20 mill opening weekend.
Final results of these movies vary big time, some become lame efforts, where we think it was not right in the first place to go for the movie adaption, but some on the contrary and to our surprise turn out to be the best examples of how a video game should transform into a movie.
What is surprising is Gavin's weak effort to somehow counter Judy's condemnation and the painfully lame efforts to dismiss the significance of the HS, diminish Judy's status as a scientist or excuse the original bad behavior on the part of Mann, Jones et al..
Muslims associated with this lame effort!
There are some changes to the Arsenal starting line - up which is hardly surprising after the lame effort the team put on at Old Trafford, but not many would have expected it to be Koscielny that dropped out for Mertesacker.
He had a great chance to score from 1 yard out, but chose to fall backwards whilst hitting a lame effort straight at their keeper, who was already laying on the ground.
But don't make things up («98 %») and involve Santi in a lame effort to have a pop at Ozil again.
Davis» lame efforts to pretend that Britain will be able to negotiate new trade deals in this time are just an attempt to focus on the positives, even where they have no substance to them.
I'd like to think that its lame effort to paint itself as digitally savvy is one of the reasons for the failure to sell (though, honestly, I doubt it).
I was reeling in a lame effort to understand them, everything from the medium to the process to the mirrorings and divisions.
In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»
If students called such a lame effort their «best,» teachers would flunk them.
Michael, you sound like someone who is either being paid to try and spin this, or you're trying to protect your investment — if it's the former, I wouldn't pay you for such a lame effort; if it's the latter, you should really hire a professional spin doctor, because you bored me.